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Quite suddenly Sidney laughed

"How very nice you are!" she said--"and how absurd! Why should their

getting married end the ro the streets and parks at night because Joe Drummond is here, I

shall have to tell him not to come?"

This did not follow, to K's ument over

it, and becaed to hiht

understand But, as I am not--"

"Ah!" said K, a trifle unsteadily "So you are not?"

Only a week--and love was one of the things she had had to give up, with

others Not, of course, that he was in love with Sidney then But he had

been desperately lonely, and, for all her practical clearheadedness, she

was softly and appealingly fe his head, he talked

suddenly and earnestly of Mrs McKee, and food, and Tillie, and of Mr

Wagner and the pencil pad

"It's like a ga, especially